XENIA, Ohio--Troy Beck is hopeful that Donald Trump will help small-business owners like him flourish, or he's worried that towns in Greene County will be decimated.

"Anything can be positive -- maybe incentives for small business, tax breaks for historic buildings," said Beck, 49, who runs Rusty NChippy's Vintage Boutique in downtown Xenia along with his girlfriend.

Beck pointed to local municipalities such as Jamestown and Bowersville that lost major employers over the years. "Now those towns are dead."

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With such efforts, along with Trump's promise of more money for rebuilding infrastructure, Xenia could become a tourist destination along the lines of Yellow Springs, a college town about 10 miles to the north, Beck said.

"If we were like, say, Yellow Springs -- if our city was more attractive -- I think it would draw more people to our area," he said.

The son of an Air Force veteran, Beck moved in 1988 from California to Xenia, where a lot of his extended family lives. He opened Rusty NChippy's with his girlfriend, Erika Friend, after she followed him from California in 2012.

Asked whether he believed that Trump would focus more on helping large companies than small businesses, Beck said small businesses would benefit either way.

Beck said he used to work at the Honda engine plant in Anna, Ohio. "And what a lot of people don't realize," he said, "is there were more than 200 companies that supplied that factory - and they were all local."